Martin Shaw on re-enchanting the Christian dream

thanks to Ruslan this is a fascinating conversation

I just discovered this guy😀. What a great mind. So grateful to YouTube for letting us find brilliance like this! ❤

I am 67 years old. This is one of the most instigating and lucid things I have heard lately. Many of the takes expressed here are spot on. Not to engage with this after 44 years of ministry, 30 of which as a reformed charismatic bishop who has been immersed in the Great Tradition, of late, would be sin. Thank you Martin.

As one of the older folks, my advice is just go to church, week after week. It will become a part of you and you will become part of it. That is how I would start. 💙🙏

This man’s spiritual journey really mirrors mine. So incredibly thankful to have found my spiritual home in the original and only church of Christ in the Eastern Orthodox Church. ☦️☦️❤️🙏🏻

Martin Shaw, Paul Kingsnorth, and these new and surprising concerts (or perhaps recognitions or rememberings) are a true light in the darkness. Praise be to God for these times we are living in ☦️

Wow Martin was cooking in this! It's interesting he talks about his experience on his vigil. There's this moment that always stuck with me. When i was an unbeliever, my mom sent me to this catholic retreat and we went to this christian play or something in this outdoor amphitheater, and it was a warm day with literally no wind at all, and out of nowhere we are sitting there and this incredible gust of wind comes out of nowhere and blows across the crowd for a few moments and then disappears and it goes back to being no wind for the rest of the day. The entire crowd kind of nervously laughed because it was so weird. I'm 35 now, and I must have been 11 or 12. I didn't become a Christian until i was 29, but even when I was an atheist I was constantly reminded of that day, because it was just THAT STRANGE where it even sent a chill down the spine of a militant atheist decades later. I don't think i will ever forget that moment for the rest of my life.

Martin you have inspired me. I love your advice to “ go for a walk and find something to be admired by you…” and “ wonder is ever present…”

It's this message that transforms despair into hope, darkness into light, confusion into coherence. This message provides gratitude for your old negative as stark contrast to your new positive.

Ah, this really blessed me. I'm a writer and i understand the mythic in our stories and lives but i was wavering a bit about my stories because some of them are not "obviously" Christian. My son is going to be baptized as an Orthodox Christian although he was raised episcopalian and I am charismatic. Martin's peace in the Orthodox faith gives me peace about that denomination now. Thanks so much.

Have been loving this podcast from across the pond. Listening to Martin Shaw and Paul Kingsnorth resonates deeply. A friend posted this C. S. Lewis quote and it seems appropriate. “Peace, a high standard of life, hygiene, transport, science and amusement - all these, which is what we usually mean by civilization, have been our ends. It will be replied that our concern for civilization is very natural and very necessary at a time when civilization is so imperiled. But how if the shoe is on the other foot? - how if civilization has been imperiled precisely by the fact that we have all made civilization our summum bonum? Perhaps it can be preserved in that way. Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it.” C.S. Lewis from his essay ‘First And Second Things’ (God in the Dock) written circa 1942.

I found this video because of Ruslan. Thank you.

This was so wonderful, I am sharing it even with my priest. I am grateful for his candor about Jordan Peterson who has been frustrating me for a while now. Matin Shaw has cleared that up with down to earth, understandable, clear, concise, language. Such a contrast!

So needed to hear this! Thank you I’ve been drawn to and amazed by the story of CS Lewis and Tolkien. And thanks for pointing to Hope and Adventure and Revival and Mystery think I need to dream and pray! Well done!

I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE the "way of the pilgrim." I read it every couple of years.

So much synchronicity in this for me. Thank you for doing this interview!❤

Onwards with gratitude

If only we had 5 hundred thousand Martin Shaws.

“I don’t need everything stretched on the rack of exegesis.” BRILLIANT way of putting it.

Amen! Thank you so much!